Green Energy and Technology - Energy for a Warming World Part 3 docx

... of water contained in the Earth’s oceans and seas. The moon pulls at the ocean/sea surface displacing it fractionally against the much stronger earthly gravitational force. At full-moon and ... waves are mechanically sustained surface waves that propa- gate along the interface between water and air. The restoring force that underpins the wave dynamics is, once more, provided by gravi...

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... especially apposite in relation to the older industrialised nations in North America and Europe, and for nations such as Japan, Australia and New Zealand. To avoid an engineering skills dearth ... global warming is real and measurable and that it can no longer be ignored. A transition from fossil fuels to renewables is inevitable – sooner rather than later. The financial...

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... 186 5 -3 537 ISBN 97 8-1 -8 488 2-8 3 3- 9 e-ISBN 97 8-1 -8 488 2-8 3 4-6 DOI 10.1007/97 8-1 -8 488 2-8 3 4-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue ... 1.1 Weather Warnings 3 was, at that time, causing this forcing was, of course, ‘natural’ and due to methane and CO 2 leeching from...

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... natu- ral lunar cycle. The location of power stations at Manukau harbour and Waitemata harbour, for example, which are relatively equidistant from Auckland, would lessen power supply variations ... generator means that it must be installed with the armature rotating around a vertical axis to ease bearing prob- lems. The four generators at the Cruachan power station in Scotland, for...

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... which land is already being commandeered by the human population, it is estimated (Sect. 3. 3) that using currently available tech- nology, an area of land and shore, about equal to the land area ... geothermal activity associated with this fault ring is to be found in Alaska, California, Mexico, Central America, the An- des mountain range, New Zealand, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Kam...

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... composed of alkali metals such as sodium, lithium and potassium, which are the most reac- tive of metallic materials. Nickel–cadmium and nickel–zinc batteries are also being re-examined and have been ... third battery operating at 110 V (55 cells, 1200 A- h) has a capacity of 132 kW-h and is used for switching operations, while a fourth (50 V, 24 cells, 200 A- h)...

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... Second, such facilities are versatile in terms of storage capac- ity, and third, they are modular. Furthermore, charge rate, discharge rate and ca- pacity can be treated as independent variables in ... Technology Required For a parallel plate capacitor the capacitance in farads is easy to compute, being proportional to the area between the plates and inversely proportional to the...

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... that car and aircraft manufacturing be terminated, to make all of the fabrication and assembly plants of the automobile and aeronautic industries, and the vast number of suitably skilled and ... con-merchants, or stay for their safety within secure walled and fenced holiday hotels and condominiums? Artificial sunshine, artificial suntans, and arti- ficial beaches are, of c...

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... seems a daunting task, if just democratic and market levers are employed. On all the available evidence, it will call for voter and consumer manipulation of a truly Machiavellian quality and scale ... Flywheel energy storage Forcing Atmospheric warming over and above natural solar warming Fossil fuels Carbon based energy sources such as oil, natural gas, and coal....

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... 131 Alaska, 75, 101 Aleutian Islands, 75 aluminium, 34 , 38 , 110 ammonia, 1 03 Ampere, 29 Andes, 75 Angier, Natalie, 42 anode, 104 Antarctica, 3, 9, 36 antenna aerial, 30 cone, 59 appliances ... underground, 39 , 73 undersea, 39 , 73 transport, 106 air travel, 132 airship, 136 BAU scenario, 131 car, 131 city cars, 136 consumption, 131 emissions, 133 infrastr...

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